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Saumya

@saumyadadoo.bsky.social
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phd-ing @/columbia re: carcerality & urban space in colonial north india / cofounder @detsolnet.bsky.social / UAW 2710 / committed flâneuse

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Graduate students are not abandoning academia. They are asking whether the academy, as it is currently structured, deserves their trust. That is not a political question; it is an institutional one. And it is one that universities cannot afford to leave unanswered."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was today years old when I found out that the Mandarin that the American English expression "gung ho" is based off of literally means "industrial cooperative". I am passing this information along in the hopes that someone will write the thinkpiece that this deserves en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho
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Gung ho - Wikipedia
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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Kuzhali Manickavel talks with Publishers Weekly about Tamil words for queerness and the feeling of not being able to figure out why you're existing www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Untranslatable: PW Talks with Kuzhali Manickavel
The debut novelist’s ‘A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School’ (Angry Robot, Oct.) infuses a subtle coming-of-age tale with the paranormal.
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Saumya @saumyadadoo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.” — Jane Kenyon
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Looks super interesting! "Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection of crime. Driven by anxieties about 'native mendacity,' newly minted forensic analysts focused on uncovering faked evidence planted by South Asians. ..."
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New Books Network podcast now out with @saumyadadoo.bsky.social on my new book: Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026) - New Books Network share.google/OCQqe8gmR6vh... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #legalhistory
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Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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Kaustubh Naik @kaustubh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Where I decode what it means to be ‘Goa based’ for settlers.
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Being (Goa) Based
Postal Posturing in the Settler Economy
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/11/2025
#OtD 8 Nov 1875 pioneering Chinese revolutionary and feminist Qiu Jin was born in Xiamen. She started a girls' school which was actually a training camp for revolutionaries to overthrow the Manchu royal family. After a failed uprising she was beheaded stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1084...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/09/2025
#OtD 24 Sep 1968 14 men (including five priests and a minister) raided a federal office in Milwaukee, took 10,000 draft cards, and set them on fire with homemade napalm in protest of the Vietnam war. Learn more about opposition to the war in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e...
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lauraflanders.org @lauraflanders.org · 10/07/2025
In this report, taped at a conference at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies in New York City, learn more about the role of labor and worker organizing in the fight against authoritarianism: bit.ly/40EdLJN #KilmarAbregoGarcia #Unions #MovementStrategy
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Can't thank @thedigradio.bsky.social enough for teaching me about Palestine, Israel, and Zionism. This interview with Mohammed El-Kurd hit me the hardest thanks to its more personal tone, but also great are: Mouin Rabbani, Richard Seymore, and Ussama Makdisi. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Palestine w/ Mohammed el-Kurd
Podcast Episode · The Dig · 27/11/2023 · 1h 3m
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 10/07/2025
Below are highlights from Day 4 of our @aaup.org v. Rubio trial. knightcolumbia.org/content/dhs-...
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
firstdays.saada.org/story/cm-naim my most favorite first day on SAADA. Rest in power Professor Naim.
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C.M. Naim's First Day
It was a date in mid-September, 1957, when the Pan Am round-the-world flight I had caught in Calcutta reached San Francisco.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
flowers for Prof C.M. Naim (1936-2025) إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُون
bouquet of flowers--mostly yellow.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
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Saumya @saumyadadoo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
More power to Mahmoud and all the others who are facing the wrath of this regime, whether in detention or fleeing from it.
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Saumya @saumyadadoo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
keep throwing money at the problem but that is the very problem! people will always win.
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Don Beaton @beatenwords.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I have been screaming for publicly owned grocery / agriculture infrastructure for years (UBI for food would build community, take pressure off of people's budgets, & solve the foodbank crisis). the NDP/Libs/Cons tax break pissing match in the election was infuriating. THINK BIGGER. DO BETTER.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 09/07/2025
Oh well then that's fine.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
ICE agents acting like the most after-school-PSA stereotype of creepy child-predators imaginable, what a surprise
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“These people—the Times, Clyburn, Summers—are so scared, so unable to conceive of a world without them and their worldview at its core, that they will, every time, choose the monsters they have known for generations over anyone they can’t imagine gaining access to.” —Rebecca Traister
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A new reservation policy brought in by India’s BJP-led central government attempts to shift Jammu and Kashmir’s politics to the ruling party’s benefit, and has left the union territory’s newly elected administration in a tricky spot, writes Burhan Majid
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India’s BJP government has weaponised reservations to disempower Kashmiris
IN DECEMBER last year, the government of Jammu and Kashmir announced the formation of a panel to review the Indian union territory’s policy for reservation in g
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Refugees," a stunning early lithograph by African-American artist Robert Blackburn, one of most accomplished printmakers of the 20th century
B&W lithograph of a group of people huddled in a boat, one using oars, one guiding with a long staff, one plunging his hands into the water below
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 21/05/2025
This is the third iteration of Queer Cinema for Palestine, "No Pride in Genocide," QCP began as a campaign to boycott TLVFest and give queer and allied filmmakers the opportunity to present their work in solidarity with Palestine. Program and free registration: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
Poster for No Pride in Genocide, Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025

Wheelchair accessible, masks required and provided.

Wednesday, 4 June at 7 pm
Innis Town Hall, Tkaronto/Toronto

The poster features mirrored abstracted faces made with whirls and curved lines.
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Pedro Rios @pedroconsafos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“Take a breath man, it’s not that serious.” Unbelievable statement an ICE agent told a man who collapsed after being handcuffed following his immigration hearing. The overzealous agents had the wrong man & would have kidnapped him had his attorney not insisted in reviewing the arrest warrant.
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ICE takes people into custody outside court in San Diego
The man was just exiting from the courtroom with his attorney when an agent grabbed his arm and several more surrounded him.
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H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike. The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
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US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike
President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Be one of 38 special supporters on Himal’s 38th🎂 Click here: buff.ly/NEBfZDV
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Saumya @saumyadadoo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My review of “How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners” by @suchitrav.bsky.social & Francesca Recchia has been published in Social Change! Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/action/showM...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/05/2025
The nations have agreed to an internationally mediated agreement sparking scenes of celebrations in Kashmir.
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Explosions, violations reported after India and Pakistan agree ceasefire
The nations have agreed to an internationally mediated agreement sparking scenes of celebrations in Kashmir.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
two nuclear states agreeing to ceasefire, even temporarily, is necessary. however, do not forget Kashmir is still occupied. And, in the long run, we will see more militarization in subcontinent, hindutva forces will be emboldened, water & resource wars will escalate, indian fascism will ramp up.
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating...Our task is to build a wide and deep movement...strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 09/05/2025
"We live in constant fear. We don't know when the next shell will fall…" As India-Pakistan fighting intensifies, at least 16 die, 59 injured, many flee, homes destroyed, others live in the open. Abrar Fayaz & Zaid Malik report from J&K border villages article-14.com/post/-save-u...
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‘Save Us’: Death, Destruction & Despair In J&K Border Villages, As India-Pakistan Conflict Deepens
Following India's strike on terrorist positions within Pakistan, two weeks after a terrorist attack in Kashmir killed 26, Pakistan responded by shelling along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Residents of border villages faced the deadliest repercussions, with at least 16 dead and 59 injured, many homeless or living out in the open. Artillery fire escalated during the night of 8 and 9 May, as the conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours intensified.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/05/2025
BREAKING: Pakistan’s army spokesman said an Indian drone attacked a military target near Lahore overnight, wounding four soldiers, while the country’s air defense system shot down 12 Indian drones that entered Pakistani airspace at various locations.
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Pakistan shoots down Indian drone in the city of Lahore, officials say
Officials in Pakistan say the country's air defense system shot down an Indian drone early Thursday in the eastern city of Lahore, as India evacuated thousands of people from villages near the two countries’ highly militarized frontier in the disputed region of Kashmir.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Other than Andor, what's your favorite antifascist fiction?
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Today 8th May, we remember the #Sétif, #Guelma and #Kherrata massacres in colonial Algeria. Victory day in Europe is intimately tied to French state murder of Algerian anticolonial fighters.
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
As an Indian national I want to be unequivocal: Modi’s systematic destruction of Kashmiri rights has endangered my family on a scale we hadn’t imagined since the 1970s. Pakistan is not my enemy; Hindutva is.
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Prachi Deshpande @prarochana.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Applications for the year-long RTP Certificate Course for 2025-26 at the CSSSC now open. For all details and queries about the programme, please check: www.cssscal.org/academic_pro... (Please share widely. And if you do, please share it with the above link)
Research Training Programme 2025-26. Would you like a taste of what it means to do research? Do you wish to deepen and widen your knowledge across the social sciences? Are you interested in pursuing a PhD but want to be more prepared? If so, the multidisciplinary RTP at CSSSC is for you! Duration is 10 months (August 2025-June 2026). Eligibility criteria is Masters or equivalent, minimum 50% marks. Programme content is two compulsory courses, three optional courses which students can choose from a variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary options, and a final research project. Certificates will be issued on successful completion of the programme. Last date for application is 3rd June 2025. For further details, see the RTP prospectus and application form on the CSSSC website: https://www.cssscal.org/academic_programmes.php
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/05/2025
Journalist and author @naomiaklein.bsky.social says that because Trump has not met campaign promises to lower prices and boost the economy, he has leaned into the more “sadistic” aspects of his agenda.
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 02/05/2025
"If one person is a terrorist, the other 10 families aren't" Imtiyaz, labourer & neighbour of alleged militant in Wandina, Shopian,to Aakif Despite 2024 Supreme Court ruling against demolitions without notice, 9 homes blown up after Apr 22 #PahalgamAttack, #Kashmir youtu.be/KNyGEasd1Fo
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 04/05/2025
Zahida Begum, 39, a mother of 3, lives in poverty & has cancer. She came to #India with her husband, a labourer & former #Kashmiri militant, 15 years ago under govt amnesty. After #PahalgamAttack, she's been told to leave, report Tauseef Ahmad & Sajid Raina article-14.com/post/-this-f...
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‘This Feels Like A Living Funeral’: Families Torn Apart, As Pakistani Wives In Kashmir Are Forced Out
In the aftermath of the fatal terrorist assault that resulted in the deaths of 26 individuals in Pahalgam, Kashmir, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has implemented various actions, ...
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Rohan Venkat @rohanvenkat.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
While Western AI discourse tends to focus on the mirage of AGI, in India it is sold as a quick fix that will bring 'development' to the masses. For @casipenn.bsky.social's India in Transition, @bulletprooflama.bsky.social examines the Indian flavour of AI hype: casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/mila-t-s...
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